Georgetown came back from behind to beat the #9 Missouri Tigers in overtime last night, pushing their record to 7-0. But besides getting their first win against a ranked opponent, here are some other interesting facts that should cement the game into Hoya History.

• Austin Freeman, Jason Clark, and Chris Wright all reached the 20 point mark. This is only the second time under John Thompson III’s tenure that three players have scored 20 or more, the last being last year’s Duke game when it was Austin, Chris, and Greg Monroe scoring 20. The time before that was a Mike Sweetney, Kevin Braswell, and Wesley Wilson showing against Howard in ’01.
• Austin Freeman scored 31 points after scoring 32 against UNC Asheville. Last year, we showed you a list of 30-point performances up through the Harvard game, and it looks like we’ll have to update that list soon.

  Under Coach Thompson, there have been five games where a player has gone for 30, and now Austin is responsible for three of them.

  The last time a Hoya had back-to-back 30-point games was in February of 2003 when Mike Sweetney put up 38 in a double-overtime loss to Notre Dame and followed that up with 32 two days later against Syracuse.

  If you’re looking for the last time a Hoya put up 30 in back-to-back wins, you have to go all the way back to Allen Iverson‘s 37 against Villanova in the 1996 season finale and 38 against Miami in the Big East Tournament.

• Chris Wright earned his second career double-double dishing out 10 assists to go with his 21 points. He earned his first in Charleston when he had a career-high 12 assists against Coastal Carolina. Chris is averaging over seven assists a game so far this season.
• Jason Clark came up big in overtime scoring nine points on 3-3 from 3. That’s the most points any Hoya has scored in overtime under Coach Thompson III’s reign. The next best was DaJuan Summers with 8 against North Carolina in the East Regional Championship. Brandon Bowman also scored 8 in the overtime win against Norfolk State in Coach Thompson’s first season.
• The Hoyas went 18 for 18 from the free throw line on the night, which is the best in Georgetown’s recorded history – at least according to our friends at The Georgetown Basketball History Project. They go back to 1978 with free throw percentage stats, and the best on that list was 12-12 against American in December of 78.

  Edit: The Georgetown Media Guide confirms that 12-12 against American was the record.

• The Hoyas scored 111 points, which is the most under JTIII. The next best offensive performance was 110 against Radford at McDonough, the last victory for Georgetown at the on-campus arena.

See the followup post for one more interesting stat from last night’s game: More History Against Mizzou [Image via Getty Images]

The season officially gets underway on Friday, but before that happens, I figured I’d let you in on what’s going on with the Hoyas who’ve taken their basketball skills beyond the hilltop.

Yesterday, we got you updated with all the Hoyas on Twitter, and today, I’ll be giving you recent updates on Georgetown players in the NBA and beyond.
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The Hoyas defeated Duke in dramatic fashion on Saturday, and while the game will go down in history because of who was in attendance, here are some other reasons why Saturday’s performance was special:

• It was Coach John Thompson III’s 200th career win.
• The Hoyas shot 71.7%. That’s the highest field goal percentage since the invention of the shot clock and the three-point line.
  
  CBS Sports claims it’s the best FG% since a 1982 NCAA Tournament Game, while SID Mex Carey pointed out a 1980 Big East game against St. John’s and said that it is tied for the 3rd best shooting game in school history.
• Chris Wright, Austin Freeman, and Greg Monroe each reached 20 points. This was the first time three Hoyas scored 20 points under John Thompson III, and the first time since Dec. 17, 2001 when Mike Sweetney, Wesley Wilson, and Kevin Braswell did it in a 99-80 win over Howard.
  
  Shortly after that game, those three players headed to McDonough to sing Jingle Bells.
• Duke entered the game boasting their best defensive team since 1950 with their opponents averaging 61.5 points per game. Georgetown scored the most points against Duke this season with 89.

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Merry Christmas everybody! In honor of the occasion, we’re providing you with some more footage of the 2001-02 Hoyas doing some Christmas caroling. It’s our present to you.

We already showed you the guys singing “Jingle Bells,” so here are “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and “Silent Night.” Enjoy!

Kevin Braswell, Wesley Wilson, Courtland Freeman, and Mike Sweetney singing “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”:

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We had to dig deep in the archives for this one, but eight years ago, Kevin Braswell, Mike Sweetney, and Wesley Wilson serenaded us with some holiday tunes. Here’s “Jingle Bells”:

I’ve been talking about senior leaders lately, and another player who was alone in his leadership role – like Reggie Williams before him and soon to be Jessie Sapp after him – was Kevin Braswell.

Kevin Braswell was the last class that came to Georgetown to play for John Thompson. Braswell had barely started his freshman season when Coach Thompson resigned in January of 1999. His career was in some ways overshadowed by the team’s struggles during his time as a Hoya, but Braswell remains one of the all-time Hoya greats. Because of the circumstances when he played for Georgetown, he didn’t have the luxury of learning to be a point guard from other older great point guard teammates. Braswell was forced to learn on the job. But even with the important role he played throughout his career from day one, his senior season was far and away his best.
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2001-02 – Record: 8-5 (Conference 4-4)
Senior Class: Kevin Braswell

Georgetown was trying to build on their Sweet Sixteen appearance from one year earlier but had a lot of trouble with consistency. The Hoyas had a great game at home against Syracuse, beating the Orange by 15 – the most ever at the Verizon Center – but there will always be a dark cloud over this season. 2001-02 was the only season in the modern era that the Hoyas were cheated out of an NCAA Tournament berth. They were flat out gypped.

In Kevin Braswell’s senior season, the team had a number of close losses that they should have won, but when the NCAA Tournament field included Boston College, a Big East team with a worse conference record than Georgetown, whom the Hoyas had beaten on the road by 27 points, you can be sure that something was wrong with the selection committee’s judgment. It was a real shame that one of the greatest guards in Hoya History only got to appear in one NCAA Tournament.
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College basketball has two premier conferences – the Big East and the SEC. Top to bottom these are the toughest conferences in America every single year. The ACC, Big Ten and Big 12 always have great teams, and the PAC-10 almost always does too. Occasionally, Conference USA or the Atlantic 10 will have one team that is among the nation’s elite. But when you’re talking about conferences as a whole, where every team is a tough opponent every single night, the Big East and SEC have separated themselves over the past thirty years.
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1998-99 – Record: 8-6 (Conference: 3-6)
Senior Class: Dean Berry, Demian Bolden, Daymond Jackson,
Trez Kilpatrick, Joe Touomou

This was a historic year for Georgetown Basketball as about one third of the way through the season, Coach John Thompson retired, and Craig Esherick became the Hoyas’ new head coach. This team had a number of older players but no real veteran leaders. The young players weren’t quite ready to take over the team, and consequently, the Hoyas struggled mightily all season. To make matters worse, the team never seemed to catch a break, as the team lost six games by three points or less.
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On November 26, 2000, the Hoyas played in the Championship Game of the Hawaii Pacific University Thanksgiving Classic. After back-to-back wins over the University of Central Florida and the College of Charleston, the Hoyas faced Minnesota for the title. Georgetown won 76-60.
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